Al Jazeera English: Palm Oil in the Goualougo Triangle

Monday, November 16, 2015

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Goualougo Triangle Field Diaries

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In November 2015, journalists from Al Jazeera English traveled to the Goualougo Triangle to highlight efforts to study and save gorillas and chimpanzees in one of the most remote places on Earth. Here correspondent John Hendren shares how clearcutting tropical rainforest for palm oil plantations threatens the region's endangered apes, which Lincoln Park Zoo scientists have been studying for decades.